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Examples of rainstorm in a Sentence
we ran into a big rainstorm on Highway 6, and the visibility was so poor we had to pull over
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First Known Use
1799, in the meaning defined above
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“Rainstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rainstorm. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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rainstorm
noun
rain·storm
-ˌstȯ(ə)rm
: a storm of or with rain
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